Friday Morning List Post!

Virgo:: Futurologist David Brin talks to a diverse range of scientists. Over the years, he has noticed that many of them have become "much livelier, more open-minded, and more interested in fields outside their own" than they were when he first met them. Physicists are more interested in biology, biologists in astronomy, and engineers in cybernetics. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Virgo, this is a perfect moment for you to have this kind of fun. You will attract unexpected benefits into your life if you wander outside your areas of specialty and check out the action in other genres. It's high time for exuberant cross-pollination.

1. You know what are awesome? Fridays.

2. Agnes and I had a great night last night. Casual dinner, then a stroll through the forest buffer by the stream. Getting hit in the face with spider webs aside, we did have fun catching fireflies.

3. It's official, I have found the best icon on all of livejournal, and it was made by boomstick. Witness:


4. Health-wise, I've ordered lots of good herbs and a bottle of UTI clear to have on hand to help out with my kidneys. I've downsized my morning coffee and am drinking about 2 litres of water a day. Plus the acupuncture thing tonight. Fingers crossed-- I'm hoping to avoid a hospital stay this summer.

5. Stolen from efface, who stole it from somebody else...

Every year, english teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays.

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p. m. instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

14 . Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p. m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p. m. at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Grand dad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

22. He was as lame as a duck - not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

6. Somebody really needs to explain to me why Tony "Who's The Boss" Danza was in my goddamn dream last night.

7. Thanks for your concern, Noelle. I didn't get your IM because I'd already gone to sleep, but everything is ok. :)

8. Everyone in WWYD seems to have a fondness for Mr. Eko this year. Well, tough, y'all. Ewan McGregor needs to be in, and I will picspam with a mighty fury to see that he is. Ahem.

Okay-- I have work and stuff to do. I have other things to ramble about, but for now, I'm just going to enjoy my (small) hazelnut latte and cheese danish. Mmm.